STATES & CITIES: Live-at-Home

To combat agricultural depression and the hand-to-mouth cash crop system,
North Carolina has for months been conducting what its able Governor
Oliver Max Gardner calls a "Live-at-Home" campaign. The economic theory
behind this program is that the home-living husbandman raises his own
food and feed, patronizes local production plants, reduces his
dependence upon extrastate sources of supply. A prime feature of the
campaign was an essay contest among 800,000 North Carolina school
children. Last week Governor Gardner closed the competition by
awarding prizes in the House of Representatives.